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An iPhone 5 can act as your personal music player and video streamer, and soon it will be able to project movies onto your bedroom wall. At the IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin this weekend, manufacturer Aiptek showed off a new handheld projec...

BERLIN -- The Toughpad 4K, described as "the world's first" 20-inch tablet with an Ultra HD (4K) resolution, was a standout among many items featured at Panasonic's IFA booth on Sunday. The tablet isn't something you'd buy for your kids, though. Aime...

BERLIN -- Klipsch unveiled the Status, a noise-isolating, over-the-ear headphones, at the IFA consumer-electronics fair on Saturday. Mashable has seen many headphones at IFA this year, but the Status stands out because it's made out of extremely dura...

BERLIN -- Is your smartphone too big for your pocket, and pulling it out of a bag or backpack to make a call is a nuisance? Alcatel has a completely wacky solution -- a remote controller (that looks like a small phone) for your smartphone. We've caug...

BERLIN -- Headphones and chargers of all sorts seemed to occupy every other booth at Showstoppers, the mini-event where smaller tech players show journalists their wares, at IFA Berlin this week. Sennheiser used the occasion to launch a couple of new...

BERLIN -- Compared to its huge space at this year's MWC in Barcelona, HTC's booth at IFA Berlin can only be described as tiny. The company brought two new devices to the show: the recently announced HTC Desire 500 and the HTC One in new Vivid Blue co...

BERLIN -- LG is on mission at IFA this year: proving that it's serious about next-gen TVs. Though the company showcased its G2 smartphone and G Pad 8.3 tablet here in Berlin, the majority of LG's booth was filled with huge TV sets with an amazingly b...

BERLIN -- LG's new Android flagship, the 5.2-inch LG G2, is not exactly new, but we had no idea when it will reach the U.S., or at what price. Now we know it will be available on Verizon and T-Mobile later this month, the company announced Thursday. ...

BERLIN -- Lenovo went all-in today at IFA Berlin, showing off a full range of new devices and further blurring lines between all-in-ones, tablets, laptops, phablets and smartphones. On the laptop-turning-into-tablet front, the company announced two d...

BERLIN -- After trying out Sony's new lens-type strap-on smartphone cameras, we've also gotten our hands on the company's new flagship smartphone, the Xperia Z1. The next step in Sony's ambitious Z series of devices, the Xperia Z1 sounds like a true ...

It's not just about the Galaxy Note 3 and the Galaxy Gear smart watch. Samsung also unveiled a new Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 edition tablet at its IFA event in Berlin. The Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition is just 7.9 millimeters thick. Samsung hails it as "...

BERLIN -- It's finally here: Samsung announced its Galaxy Gear smart watch, two days before the official opening of the IFA Berlin trade show. After an early reveal of the Gear on the wrists of Icona Pop singers in New York, Samsung CEO J.K. Shin unv...

Samsung unveiled the third generation of its big-screen Note smartphone line, the Galaxy Note 3, at events in New York City's Times Square and Berlin on Wednesday. In evolving the Note line, Samsung says it's attempted to make the phone "slimmer, lig...

Shooting your own 4K video may be closer than you think. Sony's new $4,500 FRD-AX1 camcorder, announced Wednesday at IFA in Berlin, puts 4K video in the palm of your hand and stores the content on XQD memory cards. The FRD-AX1 is not necessarily a ca...

Sony is taking on GoPro with the Wednesday launch of its new Action Cam (HDR-AS30V), a portable camcorder designed to brave even the most treacherous situations. A follow-up to its previous Action Cam model, the new camcorder is 35% lighter and 25% s...

Sony is redefining the word camera with its new "lens-type" cameras. Announced Wednesday at IFA in Berlin, the company's two new cameras look like lenses, but are, in fact, full-blown digital cameras. You attach them to your phone only when you need ...

Since Windows 8 launched, many PC manufacturers have experimented with hybrid models, but few of the designs outside of the Lenovo Yoga have gotten much traction. Sony thinks it's cracked the tablet-PC hybrid with the Vaio Flip, which the company jus...

Samsung is hosting a big event Wednesday at Berlin's IFA show to announce a slew of new products. One of the most anticipated is the company's smart watch, the Galaxy Gear, as well as its third-generation big-screen smartphone, the Galaxy Note 3. Mas...

Following announcements from LG and Acer, HTC has also revealed some of its upcoming products several days before the official start of IFA Berlin, held September 6-11. First in line is the BoomBass, a Bluetooth subwoofer that adds some heavy bass to...

Spotify is launching a new way for users to wirelessly send music to their home audio or wireless-speaker systems; it's called Spotify Connect. The tool is a collaboration between Spotify and many of the biggest players in home audio. Think of it as ...

LG has announced it would have a wide variety of new audio and video gadgets on display at IFA Berlin, held September 6-11, and it's already starting to deliver. The company just announced a wall-mountable 55-inch OLED TV, called LG Gallery, which is...

Though IFA Berlin is officially four days away, Acer has decided to unveil its product lineup, starting with a huge smartphone called the Acer Liquid S2. The device sports a monstrous 6-inch, 1920x1080 pixel screen, a 13-megapixel camera on the back ...

Although CES and Mobile World Congress, which take place in January and February, are the first big consumer electronics events of the year, it's Berlin's IFA that gives us the first important announcements after the summer doldrums. As such, IFA (wh...

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